Monday, January 08, 2007

College’s eval. setup elbows out SA guide

By Amanda Cohen, The Dartmouth Staff

Implemented during Summer term, the College’s online system of course evaluations has seen approximately 80 percent of students completing the evaluations during the last two terms, Dean of Faculty Carol Folt said. More »

LSAT change reassures law school applicants

Following a recent American Bar Association policy change, law schools will only report a student’s highest LSAT score — rather than an average of all scores — to the ABA, changing the way many law school admissions offices evaluate applicants’ scores. More »

Local vendors hawk veggies, crafts

By Cathy Wu, The Dartmouth Staff

After working forty hours a week, Judy Du Clos spends time over a four-range stove. She makes concoctions ranging from hot pepper jelly to dilly beans, preserving the produce that she and her husband pick by hand from their hundred-acre garden. The contents of her work are sealed into multicolored jars that Du Clos drives to the winter Norwich Farmers Market, an event occurring the first Saturday of every month from January until April. More »

‘I’ll take victory for $105,000’

“Jeopardy!” proved to be a cakewalk for Christian Haines ‘01, who wiped out the competition and won $105,000 on a four-game winning streak this past fall. More »

Volunteers help clean up Gulf Coast

When Sarah Peterson ‘10 first arrived in New Orleans, she felt as if she had entered a ghost town. Despite seeing gutted houses on a landscape strewn with tree branches, kitchen appliances and building foundations, she said she was inspired to help. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger selected Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eric Taylor ‘84 as a possible appointee to the state Court of Appeals. More »
  • Penwest Pharmaceuticals, a Connecticut-based speciality pharmaceutical company focusing on diseases of the nervous system, has announced the appointment of David Meeker ‘77 to its Board of Directors. More »
  • Thomas Holzel ‘63 joined the Board of Directors of Advance Display Technologies, a subsidiary of Advance Nanotech, Inc. More »